ГУЛаг Палестины - Лев Гунин

been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had

taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with

the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was

the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish

population on the part of the Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz,

from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a

subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The

Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New

York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

(10) Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.

Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection

movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in

Lvov. About 3,000 were shot by NKVD. Prison burning. Hardly 20%

of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained. (Operational Situation

Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel

Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports:

Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign

Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New

York, 1989, p. 2)

(11) The corpses are dreadfully mutilated.

Location: Lvov

According to reliable information, the Russians, before

withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants. The corpses piled up and

burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated. The population

is greatly excited: 1,000 Jews have already been forcefully

gathered together. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 11, July

3, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The

Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi

Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 4)

(12) The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians.

Location: Zviahel (Novograd-Volynski)

[...]

Before leaving, the Bolsheviks, together with the Jews,

murdered several Ukrainians; as an excuse, they used the attempted

Ukrainian uprising of June 25, 1941, which tried to free their

prisoners.

According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have

disappeared from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia.

The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians. According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone

3-4,000 persons were either killed or deported.

In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews. The

latter were former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because

of their complicity in this act. Near Dobromil an obsolete salt

mine pit was discovered. It was completely filled with dead

bodies. In the immediate neighborhood, there is a 6X15m mass

grave. The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is

estimated to be approximately several hundred.

In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by

the Bolsheviks. An additional 120 persons were murdered on June

27, 1941. The remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowering the

Soviet guards, and fled. [...]

As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and

1,500 Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east.

Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways.

Bestial mutilations were daily occurrences. Breasts of women and

genitals of men were cut off. Jews have also nailed children to

the wall and then murdered them. Killing was carried out by shots

in the back of the neck. Hand grenades were frequently used for

these murders.

In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer

used to stun cattle before slaughter.

In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly:

bones were broken, etc. In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and

thus prevented from screaming during torture and murder. The Jews,

some of whom also held official positions, in addition to their

economic supremacy, and who served in the entire Bolshevik police,

were always partners in these atrocities.

Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had

been captured were murdered. Three of them were found in a Russian

military hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in

the abdomen. [...]

[...] Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out

of 4,000 Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison. According to

the statement of 19 Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more

or less serious injuries, the Jews again played a decisive part in

the arrests and shooting. [...]

The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior

to their withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total

of 700 Ukrainians, but, nevertheless, included the entire [local]

Ukrainian intelligentsia. (Operational Situation Report USSR No.

24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel

Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches

of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July

1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)

(13) Ukrainians thrown into cauldrons of boiling water.

Location: Pleskau [Pskov] [...]

The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the

Jews who should be held responsible for the atrocities that are

committed everywhere. [...]

As it was learned that the Russians before they left have

either deported the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them,

that is, murdered them, it is assumed that in the last days before

the retreat of the Russians, about 100 influential Ukrainians were

murdered [in Pleskau]. So far the bodies have not been found - a

search has been initiated.

About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in

Kremenets. Some of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown

into cauldrons of boiling water. This has been deduced from the

fact that the bodies were found without skin when they were

exhumed. [...]

[...] Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in

Lvov, committed extensive mass-murder.

[...] Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and

Dubno, the Russians went on a rampage there. Disinterments

revealed 10 bodies of German soldiers. Almost all of them had

their hands tied behind their backs with wire. The bodies revealed

traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged eyes, severed

tongues and limbs.

The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians,

among them women and children, is set finally at 600. Jews and

Poles were spared by the Russians. The Ukrainians estimate the

total number of [Tarnopol] victims since the occupation of the

Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000. The planned deportation of

the Ukrainians already started in 1939. There is hardly a family

in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not

disappeared. [...] The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is

destroyed. Since the beginning of the war, 160 members of the

Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or deported.

Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000

civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the

morning of July 1, 1941.

As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of

the Court of Justice. Apparently, hot and cold showers were also

used here (as in Lemberg [Lviv]) for torture, as several bodies

were found, totally naked, their skin burst and torn in many

places. A grate was found in another room, made of wire and set

above the ground about 1m in height, traces of ashes were found

underneath. A Ukrainian engineer, who was also to be murdered but

saved his life by smearing the blood of a dead victim over his

face, reports that one could also hear screams of pain from women

and girls. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 28, July 20,

1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The

Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi

Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p.38-40)

(14) Had their noses, ears, tongues and even genitals cut away.

F. Fedorenko

MY TESTIMONY

When the bolsheviks retreated before the German onslaught in

the Second World War they took care in advance not to leave any

prisoners behind when the Germans arrived.

The prisoners were driven, en masse, under heavy NKVD guard

deep into Russia or Siberia, day and night. Many of them were so

tired that they could go no further. These were shot without

compunction where they fell. Terrible things happened then.

Sometimes, wives recognized their husbands among the evacuees, as

the prisoners were being driven through the villages. There was

great despair when they saw their loved ones taken under the

muzzles of automatic guns, to far, unknown places.

The villagers took care of those who did not die at once from

the NKVD bullets, but this was a very dangerous thing to do before

all the bolsheviks cleared out.

But the NKVD could not evacuate all the prisoners, there were

so many arrests, and jails were replenished constantly. In such a

case the NKVD, before making a hasty retreat, would murder the

prisoners in their cells.

I recall that when the Germans came, in the fall of 1941, to a

little town, Chornobil, on the Prypyat River, 62 miles west of

Kiev, 52 corpses of recently murdered people, slightly covered with

earth, were found in the prison yard.

These corpses had their hands tied at the back with wire; some

had their backs flayed, others had gouged eyes or nails driven into

their heels; still others had their noses, ears, tongues and even

genitals cut away. Instruments of torture which the communists

used were found in the dungeon of the prison.

Many of the tortured people were identified because they were

mostly farmers from the local collectives who had been arrested by

the NKVD for some unknown reason.

For instance, one girl (whose name I cannot recall now) from

the village of Zallissya, a mile and a quarter from Chornobil, was

arrested because one day she failed to go to dig trenches. All

were compelled at that time, to dig anti-tank trenches. The girl

was sick but there was no doctor to examine her and the NKVD

arrested her, never to return.

Two days later, when the Germans arrived, she was found among

the fifty-two corpses. (F. Fedorenko, My Testimony, in The Black

Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of

Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 97-98)

(15) Executed 180 persons.

Andriy Vodopyan

CRIME IN STALINE

In this city in the NKVD prison factory the communists executed

180 persons and buried them in two holes dug in the prison yard.

The corpses were liberally treated with unslaked lime, especially

the faces.

My brother was sentenced to three months in jail for coming

late to work. After serving 18 days in the factory prison he was

set free, and a month later was drafted to the Red Army because

this was in July 1941.

Later, his wife and my mother found him among the corpses,

identifying him by the left hand finger, underwear and papers he

had on him.

This atrocity came to light when prisoners who remained alive

were liberated. They had also a very close call. Six days before

the arrival of the German troops they heard muffled shots.

The prison was secretly mined by NKVD agents in preparation for

the German invaders. (Andriy Vodopyan, Crime in Staline, in The

Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of

Victims of Russian Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 121)

(16) Had their breasts cut off.

Yuriy Dniprovy

INNOCENT VICTIMS

In the little town of Zolotnyky in the Ternopil region the

bolsheviks murdered a captain of the former Ukrainian Galician Army

(UHA) of 1918-1922, Mr. Dankiw, and clerks of the Ukrainian

cooperative store, the sisters Magdalene, Sophia and Clementine

Husar from the suburb of Vaha. Clementine and Magdalene were

tortured in a beastly manner and had their breasts cut off.

Other people executed at that time were: Slavko Demyd, Yosyp

Vozny, Vasyl Burbela, Zynoviy Kushniryna, Pavlo Kushniryna and a

non-commissioned officer of the UHA, Mr. Tsiholsky. (Yuriy

Dniprovy, Innocent Victims, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A

White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist

Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 122)

(17) The chopped bones and flesh of the victims fell into the sewers.

P. K.

THE INFERNAL DEVICE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

(By an eyewitness)

In the year 1942, when the Red Army, harassed by the German

divisions, retreated from Katerynodar (Krasnodar), the regional

NKVD division evacuated all the prisoners and sent them in the

direction of Novorossiysk. The railway line between Katerynodar

and the station of Krymska was jammed by nearly two hundred freight

boxcars filled to capacity with political prisoners.

Suspecting that all these prisoners might fall into German

hands the Russian NKVD men, as a precautionary measure, poured

gasoline on the cars and let them burn.

Thus a few thousand people perished in inhuman torture merely

because they were suspected of anti-communism.

When the Germans entered Katerynodar they found in the regional

divisional building of the NKVD in Sinny Bazar, a horrible torture

chamber. In the vault of this building there was a dark passage

which ended with a wooden platform which dipped down at a sharp